Metadata Sanitization for Privacy ft. MAT2

Apr 26, 2025

This is a talk delivered at FOSS United Chennai's April 2025 Meetup at Full Creative, Tharamani.

Slides

The event slides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license

Talk agenda

The talk was a brief introduction to importance of metadata sanitization for protecting privacy and covered usage of metadata anonymization toolkit (MAT2) for removal of metadata with alternative software for mobile and web interfaces.

  1. Structure and components of a digital file
  2. Usefulness of metadata
  3. Problems posed by metadata
  4. Introduction to MAT2 for metadata sanitization including installation and usage
  5. Similar applications for mobile devices and web
  6. Limitations of metadata
  7. Q&A covering the challenges associated with removal of metadata in terms of quality and accessibility
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